28 entries
Category: Youth
Long Beach Unified received an overall grade of “D+” for its effectiveness at serving low-income Latino and African American students.
Jane Fernandez moved from Cuba to Alhambra when she was 8 years old. That is when the bullying started that left an impact until today.
In June, Stephany Madrigal will become the first in her family to graduate high school. The college-bound senior will also be a certified medical assistant.
Students at the Los Angeles School of Global Studies are gaining the skills needed to prepare them for college and a career.
Results of an eight-year study of Asian American parenting showed that the aggressive, controlling parenting style highlighted by Yale professor and mother Amy Chua, in her controversial 2011 memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, does not guarantee academic success.
A fairly new after-school dance club at Lincoln High School in the Los Angeles community of Lincoln Heights has started to make a name for itself at regional dance competitions, the group has already compiled a small collection of first place trophies this year.
A Korean American high school student is representing California in Google’s annual art contest.
In 2010, 16-year-old Suzan Al Shammari arrived in Los Angeles after years fleeing violence with her family in Iraq and later in Egypt.
The movie Fill Brown, opening in 200 theaters around the U.S. on April 19th, tells the story of an 18-year-old Latina poet and rap artist against the backdrop of a 21st Century family.
California stands to lose recent gains in crime reduction, but a new vision of youth justice could help families and revitalize neighborhoods.
